In hospital rooms across the country, doctors, nurses, patients, and their families grapple with questions of life and death. Recently, they have been joined at the bedside by a new group of professional experts, bioethicists, whose presence raises a host of urgent questions. How has bioethics evolved into a legitimate specialty? When is such expertise necessary? How do bioethicists make their decisions? And whose interests do they serve? Renowned sociologist Charles L. Bosk has been observing medical care for thirty-five years. In "What Would You Do?" he brings his extensive experience...
In hospital rooms across the country, doctors, nurses, patients, and their families grapple with questions of life and death. Recently, they have been...
Forgive and Remember is a work about errors in the practice of surgery, written by a sociologist who spent 18 months with the surgical service of a major American teaching hospital.
Forgive and Remember is a work about errors in the practice of surgery, written by a sociologist who spent 18 months with the surgical service of a ma...
This book is a comprehensive exploration of the relationship between the social sciences and the appearance and growth of bioethics, and provides new analysis on how ordinary questions become -bioethical- questions.
Provides new analysis on the variations between different countries and their health systems
Questions why some bioethical issues fail to attract the attention of bioethicists
Investigates the effect of the rise of bioethics in the field of medical sociology
An essential text for medical sociologists,...
This book is a comprehensive exploration of the relationship between the social sciences and the appearance and growth of bioethics, and provides new ...
